Re: so much wrong here...
On Koh Samui, when you get out into the country, it seems the standard method of connecting a house to the electrical grid is as follows:
1 Strip back a section of the (overhead!) transmission cables
2 Apply crocodile clips to bared section, connected to your house wiring
3 Wrap copious amounts of electrical insulating tape over new connection
4 Add more tape whenever winter rains short out the lines and black out entire region
I honestly thought it was made up until I saw a Thai electrician wiring up a house this way. Oh, and since they have learned (by experience, one assumes) that power transmission lines don't support ladders, support for the trade's ladder is provided by 2 locals putting their shoulders to it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
